Ultrasonic Wave Propagation Analysis for In-Process Monitoring of Stamping

Abstract:

The servo press has high potential for producing high precision mechanical parts. However, small gaps between dies and workpieces tend to exist even in servo press stamping, and the potential of the servo press has not yet been fully utilized. The reason for this is conventional presses do not have feedback control systems, and the lack of a suitable method of sensing contact information in real time causes deterioration in the accuracy of products. If slide motion could be controlled by contact information, the small gaps could be removed. To solve this problem, the authors have developed a method of monitoring the contact states between dies and workpieces during the stamping process. The method uses ultrasonic wave reflection and transmission at the contact surfaces and was proved to be able to monitor contact pressure by using a simple geometry experimental die apparatus. Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) numerical simulation was conducted in this study to obtain better understanding of wave propagation through dies and workpieces. The results obtained from this FDTD simulation visualized wave propagation that could not be experimentally measured. Some of the major results obtained are as follows. 1) When a thin metal sheet is pressed between dies that have inclined stamping surfaces, ultrasonic elastic waves are reflected and transmitted multiple times. 2) Modal conversion occurs at the die-workpiece boundary in such a way that normal waves with an inclined incident angle are transformed into normal and shear waves. 3) Elastic waves sent out from an ultrasonic transducer are mixtures of normal waves with flat wave fronts along the propagation path axis, normal waves with circular or spherical wave fronts expanding from both sides of the transducer, and shear waves. These results brought about much useful information for setting ultrasonic transducers and analyzing collected signals.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 716)
• Pages: 528-535
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.716.528
• Online since: October 2016
• Authors: Naoto Hagino*, Seiji Komiya, Jinichi Endou, Masao Ishihama
• Keywords: In-Process Monitoring, FDTD Method, Stamping, Ultrasonic Wave, Velocity Potential

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